Quotes 221 till 240 of 327.
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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.
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Religion I have disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give to them, and that is the Christian religion. If they had that and I had not given them one cent, they would be rich. If they have not that, and I had given them the world, they would be poor.
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Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.
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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.
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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
Zora Neale Hurston
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So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.
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Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
Barbara Bush: A Memoir -
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
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Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.
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That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
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The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion dollars of navy, half a billion of farm relief, etc. the people will have to furnish more revenue by paying more taxes. It is for them, through their Congress, to decide how far they wish to go.
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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
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The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
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The ideas I'm working with are ideas I'm committed to. I don't know how to soft-shoe them. I don't know how to make them more palpable. I just never knew how to be one of those girls. I wish I knew how to be that sometimes, but I don't know how to be that way.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.
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The more people get advised to eat vegetables, the less it seems they wish to eat them. And it is quite a natural response. So I've said that the main way that we get to like food is through being exposed to them, but there's a second condition. We have to be exposed to them without feeling any sense of coercion.
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